Dragons Teeth (Antarctica)
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Dragons Teeth () are a small group of rocks rising to c. 100 m off Kanarata Point, the northeast extremity of
Astrolabe Island Astrolabe Island, located at , is an island long, lying in the Bransfield Strait northwest of Cape Ducorps, Trinity Peninsula in Antarctica. It was discovered by the French expedition, 1837–40, under Captain Jules Dumont d'Urville, and ...
, off Trinity Peninsula in Antarctica. They were photographed from the air and surveyed from the ground by
FIDASE The Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition (FIDASE) was an aerial survey of the Falkland Islands Dependencies and the Antarctic peninsula which took place in the 1955–56 and 1956–57 southern summers. Funded by the Colonial ...
, 1955–57. The name, applied by UK-APC, is descriptive of these black tooth-shaped rocks.


Maps


Trinity Peninsula.
Scale 1:250000 topographic map No. 5697. Institut für Angewandte Geodäsie and British Antarctic Survey, 1996.
Antarctic Digital Database (ADD).
Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly upgraded and updated.


References


Dragons Teeth.
SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer. Rock formations of the Trinity Peninsula Astrolabe Island {{TrinityPeninsula-geo-stub